The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThis is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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